An Ecumenical Council is the Church's supreme authority, and possesses the competence to resolve major questions of church life.

The Sixth Sunday after Pentecost
by Archbishop Andrei (Rymarenko, 1893-1978)

Thy Sins Be Forgiven Thee
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

by Elder Joseph of Vatopaidi (Spiritual Child of Elder Joseph the Hesychast)

"Nothing will separate me from Christ"

An article by Marina Ledkovsky

Metropolian Veniamin (Fedchenkov)(1880-1961) from God’s Disposition in My Life

To this day, in the city of Nazareth—one of the last cities in the Holy Land with a sizeable Christian population—there is a church dedicated to the Archangel Gabriel.

A homily by St. John of Shanghai
Belgrade, 1928

Even after death St Olga espoused life eternal and resurrection, filling believers with joy and confounding non-believers

What Have We to Do with Thee?
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

It seems that as the years progress, we are seeing more people afflicted with Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disorder and many other mental illnesses

Wonder-worker and Fool-for-Christ, Blessed Procopius was canonized in 1547, and is commemorated on July 8/21.

by Hegumen Tryphon, Abbot of All-Merciful Saviour Monastery

The Holy Synod of Bishops confirms Archimandrite Irinei as Bishop of Sacramento, Vicar of the Western American Diocese

Bari, Rome, Amalfi, Milan, Venice, Florence...following the roads of Apostolic antiquity.
Led by Fr. Vladimir Kaydanov with the Blessing of Metropolitan Hilarion (ROCOR).
Oct 31 - Nov 14

A Sermon by Metropolitan Philaret (Voznesensky)

The story of the miraculous finding in Altai of a royal icon painted by order of the Tsar-Martyr Nicholas II

From that time on we often appealed to the Holy Tsar Nicholas, and help came immediately under extraordinary circumstances. O Holy Royal Martyrs, pray to God for us!

by Archimandrite Kirill (Pavlov)

A homily by Father George Calciu

The Healing of the Centurion's Servant
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew by Blessed Theophylact

John feared God alone, and spoke the truth to every person no matter how highly placed.

Bishop Mikhail was born in the Orlovsk-Sevsk Diocese in 1858 (now the Orlovsk-Livensk Diocese) located SW of Moscow, and E of Kiev, just inside the border of Russia and outside of Ukraine.

by Monk Moses the Athonite

The Orthodox Church celebrates its New Martyrs, known and unknown, who refused to submit to Islam under penalty of death on the Third Sunday after Pentecost

The Eye is the Lamp of the Body
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

Next year will mark the 150th anniversary of Russia’s sale of Alaska to the United States on October 18, 1867, for $7.2 million, or about two cents an acre.

Photo-report on the celebration in San Francisco of the 50th anniversary of his repose

A Sermon by Archimandrite John (Krestiankin)
Delivered on the celebration of 1,000 years since the Baptism of Russia in 988.

As a beautiful fruit of the sowing of Thy salvation, the lands of America doth offer to Thee, O Lord, all the Saints that have shone in her.

Come Follow Me
From The Explanation of the Gospel of St. Matthew
by Blessed Theophylact

On November 19, 2009, priest Daniel Sysoev was killed. He was a missionary who roused people from their spiritual torpor and led them to Christ.

Fr. Daniel's Autobiography and the Interview with Him on the Occasion of the Opening of the Missionary Centre

Sermon by Metropolitan Philaret
before the Pannikhida for Archbishop John of San Francisco

By Bishop Alexander (Mileant, +2005)